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Masterthinker
Fortune 500 companies have paid huge sums of dollars to bring this course to their executives. Mail order customers have paid over $100 each to learn it on tape. Now this remarkable course is available to individuals.
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First published January 1, 1989
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Edward de Bono
234 books1,147 followersEdward de Bono was a Maltese physician, author, inventor, and consultant. He is best known as the originator of the term lateral thinking (structured creativity) and the leading proponent of the deliberate teaching of thinking in schools.
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June 30, 2017
Disappointing. It came out of the gate pretty strong with the clever example of how to calculate the number of games it would take for a tennis tournament with N players, but by the end of it, I'm just left feeling that solution was more of an epiphany than a repeatable process. The body framework wasn't as useful as I had at first thought either. I'll probably go back and review that ... to be sure I didn't just gloss over an important point.
September 7, 2018
To figure how many tennis matches are needed don't look at the winners, look at the losers.
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March 22, 2020
Like a seminar of a 'guru' in written format.
October 30, 2024
I had thought I had read all of Edward de Bonos books, but this was awesome, and one I had somehow missed!
As usual, one of the very best on how to think better.
He used a body as a framework to the parts and ways to think. It is incredible to me how much difference there can be in raw thinking, decision and strategy quality, based on how well a person thinks.
There are parts of any of this style of Simon and Schuster style audio books which seem a little bit dated, especially around computers, but still good everygreen content. (not sure S&S was the publisher).
Read unabridged using Libby at 2.5x speed
(20mins of 60min audio)
Read again 03/10/22 3x speed
Probably worth reading in slower mode, in paperback to memorise & practice frameworks
Read again 2024. at 3x speed. 1 hour.
As usual, one of the very best on how to think better.
He used a body as a framework to the parts and ways to think. It is incredible to me how much difference there can be in raw thinking, decision and strategy quality, based on how well a person thinks.
There are parts of any of this style of Simon and Schuster style audio books which seem a little bit dated, especially around computers, but still good everygreen content. (not sure S&S was the publisher).
Read unabridged using Libby at 2.5x speed
(20mins of 60min audio)
Read again 03/10/22 3x speed
Probably worth reading in slower mode, in paperback to memorise & practice frameworks
Read again 2024. at 3x speed. 1 hour.
December 30, 2015
Good information, but too short ...
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